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...brief June visit through the jails and files of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 62-page report reflected the conflicting views of its authors. The three Latin American members favored a relatively clean bill of health to pave the way for readmission of the Dominican Republic into polite inter-American society. The U.S. pressed for a stronger report, condemning the Trujillos for their many past crimes, skeptical of their promises to reform...
Zealous and convincing, he perched at the hospital bedside of ailing (from hepatitis) Food for Peace Director George McGovern, made his case to Secretary of State Rusk, Under Secretary Chester Bowles, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
...hastened Prohibition's repeal; the Post-Dispatch's corrosive Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; the Baltimore Sun's hard-hitting Edmund Duffy; J. N. (Ding) Darling of the Des Moines Register and the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Henry (Art) Young of Chicago's old Inter-Ocean, a bitter commentator on social injustice-burned with an inner fire that gave their names and their work a national currency...
...Asked by a Newsweek correspondent for his comment on recent criticism of omnipresent and overlapping White House policy advisers (TIME, June 30), particularly in Latin American affairs, the President said that he was sorry that the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs had gone unfilled for so long. But, he added, "my experience in Government is that when things are noncontroversial, beautifully coordinated and all the rest, it may be that there isn't much going...
Nowhere has the Kennedy system seemed more like madness than in Latin America. While searching around for a strong Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Kennedy left Ike-appointed Thomas Mann in temporary charge of the State Department desk, but gave policy shaping to Old New Dealer Adolf Berle, 66, chairman of a special Latin America task force. Kennedy also assigned Arthur Schlesinger as a one-man presidential troubleshooter for the continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from...